The Frightful Collision on the Housatonic Railroad, near Bridgeport, Conn.
Date1865
MediumWood engraving; printer's ink on wove paper
DimensionsSheet (height x width): 15 13/16 x 10 15/16in. (40.2 x 27.8cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
DescriptionFour views of a railroad accident. In the upper view, the locomotive has crashed into the rear passenger car. Several people appear to be jumping out of the windows. The middle view shows empty railroad tracks with what appears to be telegraph wire running beside it. In the lower left view, men and women are being carried from the wrecked car and placed on the ground. The lower right view shows the remains of the engine and debris in the interior of the wrecked car.
Object number1979.46.24
InscribedOn recto, above images, printed in black ink, "FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. / THE FRIGHTFUL COLLISION ON THE HOUSATONIC RAILROAD, NEAR BRIDGEPORT, CONN."; beneath upper image, printed in black ink, "THE LOCOMOTIVE DASHING ENTIRELY THROUGH THE REAR PASSENGER CAR."; beneath middle image, "SCENE OF THE CATASTROPHE NEAR BRIDGEPORT, CONN., ON THE HOUSATONIC RAILROAD."; beneath lower left image, "REMOVING THE KILLED AND WOUNDED PASSENGERS FROM THE DEBRIS."; beneath lower right image, "THE INTERIOR OF THE WRECKED CAR, SHOWING THE ENGINE COMPLETELY EMBEDDED AND CRUSHED."; lower right, in pencil, accession numberOn View
Not on view